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Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1959 University Daily Kansan
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Students Urge Parking Changes
Sixteen dollars is too much to pay for a parking ticket.
Yet the campus police must reduce parking violations some way so what can they do?
This was the opinion of most students who were interviewed in a Daily Kansan poll this week. Yet a majority of the students had suggestions for improving the system of parking permits and violations. Their comments were:
Thomas J. Gallagher, Kansas City,
Mo., freshman—"I don't think the
tickets should ever be more than $5.
But if a student gets too many tick-
ets, his parking permit should
be taken away."
Dean Radcliffe, Lawrence freshman—"I think a parking offender should pay up to $4, but having to pay as much as $16 is too much. I think it is necessary to have to pay parking fines, but sometimes a sacrifice must be made, a calculated risk taken—such as being on time for an important appointment. Sixteen dollars is too much money to have to pay for any parking ticket.
David J. Thompson. Tonganoxie freshman—I have to drive 15 miles to walk. It takes me as long to walk from parking area "O" to my classes as it takes me to drive from Tonganoxie. And I pay $4 for the privilege."
Gordon C. Thomson, Lawrence freshman—"I don't like the idea of having to pay $4 for a parking permit just to park on the Hill. Commuters and students who work off-campus have to have cars to go to school. Then they have to pay KU for a necessity for their education."
MIAMI —(UPI)— Three miles from beach hotels that charge $100-a-day lies a wooded islet where five men live on $1 a week.
They retreated to Lummus Island many years ago to escape the hurlyburly and high cost of modern living.
Five Retreat Beat High Costs
One Has Job
Four of the men eke out their living by fishing. They take what they need for their own tables and sell the rest to buy a few groceries and some gasoline for their small boats.
Only one of the island dwellers, Joe Dravet, has a regular job. He works as a tractor operator for the City of Miami Beach but returns to the lonely island every night.
When not working, the five spend their time dozing or watching the rolling surf. They have little communication with the rest of the world.
Live on $10 Week
Their only friends are the officers of the harbor patrol who call on the men occasionally while cruising through Biscayne Bay.
Living expenses run about $10 a week for each and sometimes less, they say. Their crude shacks, made mostly of driftwood, require little upkeep. Wilbur Pender, 60, who has lived on the islet 20 years, says his dwelling cost $7 to build.
They pay no rent, no property taxes and no utilities. The only modern convenience on Lummus is one portable radio.
The newest arrival is 75-year-old Joe Albury, a retired fisherman who came to Lummus eight years ago.
"My doctor told me to take it easy," he explained.
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Donald E. Haring, Altoona freshman- "The present scale for parking fines is satisfactory. The progression should be effective in reducing parking violations."
Kyle Otis LaFollette Jr., Lane freshman—"If offenses are reported, fines are not enough. Constant offenders are creating a problem for every student with a car. I have no specific suggestions, but penalties for repeated offences should be made even stricter."
Robert L. Stutz, Kansas City, Kan.
graduate student, said: "I think something should be done about that long line in front of the traffic office. I was very busy in research and teaching at the beginning of the semester and simply didn't have time to wait for a registration sticker. I parked in the Sunnyside parking lot where the buildings are being razed and got a ticket. Nobody even lives there.
"It was perhaps a question of the letter of the law as compared to the
spirit of the law when I received my ticket. The traffic office should be more lenient during the first week of school. But after that they should really clamp down."
William P. Hargraves, Goodland junior, said: "I shudder at the thought of getting a $16 parking ticket—if I ever got enough tickets—but what else can KU do? This school wasn't designed for automobiles. It's chief purpose is to act as an institution for higher learning, not as a glorified parking lot."
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